Copy and paste this worksheet as a separate page linked to the Homepage of your portfolio. DO NOT type your answers on THIS document because it needs to be used by other students. The title of your page which replies to these questions is linked to your portfolio and should begin with the first initials of your first and last name. (In my case, the link to this worksheet from my portfolio page would read frqueensgarden.)
You may earn a maximum of 3 points toward your final grade by doing the above and answering the questions and submitting them ontime (no later than Sunday, January 18 at or before 12:01am). Any worksheets submitted after the deadline will get a 0. You will be rewarded a maximum of 3 points if I judge your work to be above average. You will receive 2 points if your work is average, that is it may have a few minor mistakes in some of the answers but demonstrates correct grammer and indicates that some, but not all, of the answers, are acceptable and well expressed. You will earn only 1 point if you simply answered the questions and/or if you use poor grammar and if there are signs that you have not read the material on which your answers are based.
1. Describe the stasis in the play: where, when, who, what, etc. in a paragraph.
This is a more modern story. As such it's also set in the west side where Brenda actually grew up. It goes on to show Brenda's actual childhood and how she lived "surrounded by the 405, the 710, the L.A. County Flood control, and the Carrson Oil Fields." The main characters themselves are Brenda, your storyteller, Brenda's boyfriend Kali, her family of course, Sherry and Steven (who are Brenda's friends), Aunti Mary, Judy, and Smoke.
2. What is the intrusion?
Brenda finally realize her and Kali won't work out. I.e. Brenda and Kali are actually on seperating paths from each-other and it begins to bother Kali. Kali also believes they'll marry and Brenda is only thinking about college.
3. What is the unique factor?
Brenda tells us about her life. Starting from childhood to where she ends up at the end of the play and how difficult it is.
4. What is the dramatic question that should be answered by the end of the play?
Will Kali and Brenda actually end up together? Will Brenda continue on to college and leave him behind? But we also learn this fate because Brenda comes back to teach and Kali is fatally shot.
5. Provide an illustration of the two kinds of exposition that the play has in it.
With only how one character knows something, we have: Well how Hai fell in love with Brenda, but doesn't try to admit it until it's almost too late. She realizes why Hai was always around when she actually needed someone, why Kali fights him, why Brenda realizes what could have been a very different relationship as she reflects on it.
There's also the exposition that everyone knows: Brenda trying to fit into different social groups. During the riot, for example is how she can't pick a side to be on. She's torn between two clashing lives.
6. Identify the most theatrical moment in the play and of what importance it seems to be.
It's simply How the shootout condemned the possibility of Kali and Brenda's chance at a relationship together. The roses also come into play here, but for more gruesome circumstances.
7. List some of the themes of the play.
Easy: Diversity, family, inclusion, isolation, struggle to find yourself, death and despair, for-longing.
8. What does the narrator want and what are some obstacles that stand in the way of her getting what she wants?
Brenda has many of these. Brenda wishes to actually stay as a child with her family and Kali, while that soon changes into escaping and going to college. She finally wants to really be with Kali, but he's too complicated with his problems to be a reachable goal. Stereotypes come into play as Judy tells Brenda and Hai to be together due to ethnicity, The largest is how Brenda cannot decide where it is she fits into society.
9. Describe some possible images in the play and how does the title help us understand the play.
The roses of Aunt Mary. They symbolize the blood and death that is the shootout and they turn to be something far more terrible than they origianlly were. Smoke writiing on Brenda's hand is another prime example.
10. Briefly define the family relationships that are examined in the play.
Family in how Brenda see's herself as a part of it, then not, then apart of the family again by the plays end. Kali and his friends could be another, due to Brenda's intimate relations with them. But you could also see them as a gang. They are homeboys that have each-others backs.
Copy and paste this worksheet as a separate page linked to the Homepage of your portfolio. DO NOT type your answers on THIS document because it needs to be used by other students. The title of your page which replies to these questions is linked to your portfolio and should begin with the first initials of your first and last name. (In my case, the link to this worksheet from my portfolio page would read frqueensgarden.)
You may earn a maximum of 3 points toward your final grade by doing the above and answering the questions and submitting them ontime (no later than Sunday, January 18 at or before 12:01am). Any worksheets submitted after the deadline will get a 0.
You will be rewarded a maximum of 3 points if I judge your work to be above average. You will receive 2 points if your work is average, that is it may have a few minor mistakes in some of the answers but demonstrates correct grammer and indicates that some, but not all, of the answers, are acceptable and well expressed. You will earn only 1 point if you simply answered the questions and/or if you use poor grammar and if there are signs that you have not read the material on which your answers are based.
1. Describe the stasis in the play: where, when, who, what, etc. in a paragraph.
This is a more modern story. As such it's also set in the west side where Brenda actually grew up. It goes on to show Brenda's actual childhood and how she lived "surrounded by the 405, the 710, the L.A. County Flood control, and the Carrson Oil Fields." The main characters themselves are Brenda, your storyteller, Brenda's boyfriend Kali, her family of course, Sherry and Steven (who are Brenda's friends), Aunti Mary, Judy, and Smoke.
2. What is the intrusion?
Brenda finally realize her and Kali won't work out. I.e. Brenda and Kali are actually on seperating paths from each-other and it begins to bother Kali. Kali also believes they'll marry and Brenda is only thinking about college.
3. What is the unique factor?
Brenda tells us about her life. Starting from childhood to where she ends up at the end of the play and how difficult it is.
4. What is the dramatic question that should be answered by the end of the play?
Will Kali and Brenda actually end up together? Will Brenda continue on to college and leave him behind? But we also learn this fate because Brenda comes back to teach and Kali is fatally shot.
5. Provide an illustration of the two kinds of exposition that the play has in it.
With only how one character knows something, we have: Well how Hai fell in love with Brenda, but doesn't try to admit it until it's almost too late. She realizes why Hai was always around when she actually needed someone, why Kali fights him, why Brenda realizes what could have been a very different relationship as she reflects on it.
There's also the exposition that everyone knows: Brenda trying to fit into different social groups. During the riot, for example is how she can't pick a side to be on. She's torn between two clashing lives.
6. Identify the most theatrical moment in the play and of what importance it seems to be.
It's simply How the shootout condemned the possibility of Kali and Brenda's chance at a relationship together. The roses also come into play here, but for more gruesome circumstances.
7. List some of the themes of the play.
Easy: Diversity, family, inclusion, isolation, struggle to find yourself, death and despair, for-longing.
8. What does the narrator want and what are some obstacles that stand in the way of her getting what she wants?
Brenda has many of these. Brenda wishes to actually stay as a child with her family and Kali, while that soon changes into escaping and going to college. She finally wants to really be with Kali, but he's too complicated with his problems to be a reachable goal. Stereotypes come into play as Judy tells Brenda and Hai to be together due to ethnicity, The largest is how Brenda cannot decide where it is she fits into society.
9. Describe some possible images in the play and how does the title help us understand the play.
The roses of Aunt Mary. They symbolize the blood and death that is the shootout and they turn to be something far more terrible than they origianlly were. Smoke writiing on Brenda's hand is another prime example.
10. Briefly define the family relationships that are examined in the play.
Family in how Brenda see's herself as a part of it, then not, then apart of the family again by the plays end. Kali and his friends could be another, due to Brenda's intimate relations with them. But you could also see them as a gang. They are homeboys that have each-others backs.